Read Alouds

List titles of read-aloud books that you have found to be a guaranteed success for K students:

A Hen, a Chick, and a String Guitar:
Anansi stories by Eric Kimmel
Any folktale by Margaret Read MacDonald is a sure-fire hit, including:

Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Bee Bim Bop by Linda Sue Park
Book! Book! Book! by: Deborah Bruss

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by: Bill Martin
Conejito: a folktale from Panama

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus by Mo Willems
Drat That Fat Cat by Pat Thomson

Fat Cat: a Danish folktale

Go to Sleep Gecko: a Balinese folktale
Great, Smelly, Slobbery, Small-toothed Dog: (a variant of Beauty and the Beast)

Hello, Bumblebee Bat (Darrin Lunde)- Q&A format
Hondo and Fabian by Peter McCarty

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Simms Taback)

Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes

Little Rooster's Diamond Button

Mabela the Clever
Magic Porridge Pot by Paul Galdone
My Spring Robin by: Anne Rockwell**

Peter Rabbit (Short retelling by:Frederick Warne)

Stella Luna (Janell Cannon)
A Story, A Story by Gail Haley

Teeny Weeny Bob

The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires
The Lorax (Dr. Seuss) - - use in author study
The Squeaky Door
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by: Eric Carle
The Wild Baby by Barbo Lindgren

Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur!: a Palestinian folktale